Inspector General of Police (IGP) Traffic, Basant Rath on Sunday assured his followers on Twitter that he will act and get Polo Ground vacated from the city traffic police department vehicles.

Rath who is famous on social media network sites, got numerous queries from his followers on twitter and he assured them of action.

One such query was raised by official twitter handle of J&K State Sports Council (JKSSC) in which it had tweeted, “City traffic department has encroached upon main Polo Ground,will @KangriCarrier (Basant Rath) take any action for saving the property of youth”.

To that Basat Rath replied, “Yes. I'll act and revert. What belongs to the youth will stay with them”.

He gave similar replies to other queries that were raised by his followers about the Polo Ground being encroached by city traffic police department. In the ground, department has been keeping towed vehicles from last more than three years without any permission from JKSSC.

Meanwhile SP Traffic City, Al-Tahir Geelani said that they have started the process to look for the alternative place to keep towed vehicles.

“I had recently assumed the charge of the city traffic and was not aware. It is true that our department has been keeping vehicles towed by our department for traffic violations in the one patch of the field,” he said.

“We have start process of finding alternate location to keep the vehicles that are towed away by our department. Soon we will vacate polo ground of all the vehicles that have been kept there,” he added.

In a first of its kind outreach initiative, the Srinagar district administration has roped in corporate houses operating in the state for providing assistance to encourage potential youth in sports and other activities.